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Eldering can be
mystical craft
(living is)

:- Doug.

I have soul work to do—
right up to the very end

:- Doug.

Elders grow
foul or fresh

:- Doug.

Elders! Abdicate not your voices
A pond without an outflow
Grows foul

:- Doug.

I want more sleep—and—
I want to get into the world
Guess I’ll get up!

:- Doug.

Events are not necessary
Open space every day!

:- Doug.

In healthy times, Buber says,
Winds of meeting freshen even the dullest
It is incumbent upon our elders
Even in unhealthy times
To keep doing the healthy things

:- Doug.

She gets the better of me
My wife in our spats
“You said” —and instantly
I cannot remember
What either of us said
Truly I was not there
In the words
Only in the emotions or
In the between of us
Or maybe only my I was there
Wanting to scrap for my me
In either case immersed
In our us
Converse is not only
Butterflies and blue skies
Converse gets the better of us
The truth of us
Confused? Swirled:
Converse is the better of us

:- Doug.

Where are they now
We ask of famous ones gone by
Ask instead, Where are we now?

:- Doug.

We see not whole
without a touch
of madness

:- Doug.

We don’t know—whole—what we think until we speak. Speak.

:- Doug.

Inviter, Freer, Meeter

:- Doug.

Taxes are our admission price for the daily spectacle.

:- Doug.

People of the meeting are we.

:- Doug.

When we run out of trees for toilet paper, we will no longer be able to breathe.

:- Doug.

Given plus given
yields unsought open roads

:- Doug.

Eldering, loving, means to give yourself to the meeting. Meeting person, community, world. No reserve. Totally.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1693

Every conversation a threshold
turn aside or step through

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Think bigger, elder!

:- Doug.

Elders help us figure out what matters.

:- Doug.

As an elder what’s your watchword?

:- Doug.

Elders are about bringing meeting and relation to a world which wants them not.

:- Doug.

Eldering is about real living: opening the world of experiencing and using to the world of meeting and relation.

:- Doug.